Differentiating Products

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Differentiating Products

• Dr(s) Jennifer Scrivner and Georgann Toop

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Creating a Powerful Product Assignment

• Identify the essentials of the unit
• Identify one or more formats or packing options
  for the product
• Determine expectations for quality in all 3 areas
• Decide on scaffolding you may need to build in
  order to promote success

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• Differentiate based on
• Ability or readiness
• Interest
• Learning style or Multiple Intelligence
• Develop a product assignment that clearly says to
  the student
• You should know, do and understand these things
• Proceeding through these steps/stages
• Format
• Level of quality you expect

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Tips for Success

1. Use products as one way to help your students see
   the ideas and skills they study in school being
   used in real world applications/issues.
2. Talk with your students about the need to be
   critical and creative in thinking. Build for
   passion of ideas
3. Require students to synthesize information
4. Stress planning.use check in dates to eliminate
   procrastination

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• 5. Support technologies, modes of expression and
  materials
• 6. Communicate clearly with parents
• 7. Whenever possible arrange for products to be
  viewed by someone other than just you